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Mocking World Music: Amadou & Mariam

Amadou & Mariam are making a mockery of the term "world music". Not content to be the king and queen of Malian tunes, their new album, Welcome to Mali , announces their intentions to be players at the top of the globe's music charts. And with an album Read More...

Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 12:33 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: CD, Reviews, Damon Albarn, Mali, Amadou & Mariam, Keziah Jones, Booker T & the MGs

Out of Action: Check the Mali multimedia

Much like these tuareg, I am on the road for a work trip for two weeks, so posting will be minimal. Sorry, promise to get things back to usual when I get back. For now you can read my articles about traveling in Mali here http://www.mg.co.za/mali There Read More...

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 1:39 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Mali, Festival in the Desert

Sorry, I was in West Africa!

Photo: Lisa Skinner Hey all, sorry about the lack of posting here since mid December. I have been away on leave, for the most part backpacking through Mali and Senegal. I have some great stories to tell and music and video to share, but that will come Read More...

Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 4:23 PM by Lloyd | 4 Comments

Filed under: Mali, Festival in the Desert

Exporting Tuareg Culture to the world: The Festival in the Desert

Manny Ansar, the founder and organiser of Mali’s legendary Festival in the desert is an incredibly humble man, this is born out by the fact that he still wonders why all these foreigners want to travel close to eighty kilometers into the Sahara desert Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:24 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Interview, Festivals, Feature, Tinariwen, Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba, Mali, Festival in the Desert

Mali Music: A guide to some of Mali’s great recent exports

If you’re looking for an introduction into the music of Northern Mali there is no better jumping off point than Tinariwen. Formed in 1982 in the Tuareg rebel camps by Ibrahim Ag Alhabibe, Tinariwen’s first recording available outside of Mali was 2002’s Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:00 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Tinariwen, Bjork, Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba, Mali, Ali Farka Touré, Toumani Diabaté, Amy Sacko, Taj Mahal, Etran Finatawa